Do you all think the middle class is being pushed further and further down the social ladder rungs? Are YOU feeling financially squeezed? In the area where you live, what constitutes a middle class?

[url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21272238/]Who or what is the middle class?
Economic data can't fully explain why so many feel financially squeezed[/url]

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When politicians, economists, academics and journalists try to assess the current economic status of the "American middle class," the debate often begins with a question that some concede is all but impossible to answer: Who, exactly, is middle class in America today?

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